He came to the archive for her married sister, but six weeks later the gruff forty-two-year-old wolf shifter marks the quiet twenty-four-year-old Walker who was never meant to be his.
She knows she is the wrong sister, yet he stays, and their work on old land deeds stretches into hours she cannot explain away.
When a rival shifter touches her in her own vault, he snarls; when he kisses her, it is with the hunger of a man who has gone too long without.
Only afterward does she learn he spent twelve years grieving the woman he first wanted, never knowing she existed.
His clan now calls their fated bond illegal, enemies are circling, and one vote could erase her from his life for good.
